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The Wave of Celebrities

The scaffolding is finally off my mother's apartment building. Aesthetics aside, that is great and important news because the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade—with its balloons, marching bands and floats—passes directly below her window. It has been a drag watching the parade through wooden planks and metal poles for the past few years, especially considering the way we and our guests used to enjoy the parade.

We discovered a couple of decades ago that the parade becomes a lot more fun—especially when you're an adult and...